Joe Orton: The Orton Diaries | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780306807336 | The Orton Diaries | Joe Orton (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 1996

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Beschreibung

"To be young, good-looking, healthy, famous, comparatively rich and happy is surely going against nature." When Joe Orton (1933-1967) wrote those words in his diary in May 1967, he was being hailed as the greatest comic playwright since Oscar Wilde for his darkly hilarious Entertaining Mr. Sloane and the farce hit Loot , and was completing What the Butler Saw but less than three months later, his longtime companion, Kenneth Halliwell, smashed in Orton's skull with a hammer before killing himself. The Orton Diaries , written during his last eight months, chronicle in a remarkably candid style his outrageously unfettered life: his literary success, capped by an Evening Standard Award and overtures from the Beatles his sexual escapades,at his mother's funeral, with a dwarf in Brighton, and, extensively, in Tangiers and the breakdown of his sixteen-year "marriage" to Halliwell, the relationship that transformed and destroyed him. Edited with a superb introduction by John Lahr, The Orton Diaries is his crowning achievement.

Über den Autor

The plays of Joe Orton (1933-1967),Loot, What the Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, and others,rank with Oscar Wilde's as some of the most outrageous and hilarious of our time. He was brutally murdered by his male lover at the peak of his career.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	1996
Genre:	Importe , Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Theater & Film
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780306807336
ISBN-10:	0306807335
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Orton, Joe
Redaktion:	Orton, Joe Lahr, John
Hersteller:	Hachette Book Group USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 140 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Joe Orton (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.1996
Gewicht:	0,475 kg